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WordPress 4.8 adds events to the dashboard news widget
WordPress 4.8 will be released soon, and when that happens, local events will show up in the dashboard! For more background, check out this post. This is really exciting! It’s going to be even easier for WordPress users to find out about events organized by meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for…
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Hello, Polyglots!
We are the editors for the Russin translations of Subscriber pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly…
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Dev Chat Agenda for June 7th (4.8 week 6)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.8 timing 4.8 bug scrub Customize: looking for new contributor to mentor Editor: GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’…
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JavaScript Chat Summary for June 6th
Below is a summary of the discussion from today’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat (agenda,…
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WordPress Events and News widget FAQ
Information about the WordPress Events and News widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of…
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Recap of June 6, 2017 Meeting
Lesson Plan Updates @jenwill has continued working on enqueuing scripts and styles. my rough draft is maybe halfway through and it’s already really long. Requests feedback. (https://make.wordpress.org/training/?post_type=handbook&p=8646&preview=true) Suggestions were made regarding adding WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page…
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Agenda for June 6, 2017 Meeting
The training team will be in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ today for our weekly meeting at our regular time: 19:00 UTC. If you can’t be there, please be sure to leave a note in the comments…
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Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 7.6
WordPress for Android version 7.6-rc-1 has been released in the Google Play Store. You can join the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function…
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Agenda for the Polyglots chats on June 7th
Hello polyglots, Here’s a short agenda for the chat tomorrow. LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ stats prior to 4.8 WordPress 4.8 release plan and…
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Hello Polyglots, I am one…
Hello Polyglots, I am one of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These…